You take everything so coolly — it’s unnatural. It makes me wonder what you’re really thinking.

They’re right to keep their distance from us. We are still dangerous.

I always say too much when I’m talking to you — that’s one of the problems.

I’m not always the most dangerous thing out there. Let’s leave it at that.

“Was it really necessary to experiment like this? Wouldn’t the safer path be to just admit that he might never be able to handle the thirst the way the rest of us could, and not push his limits? Why flirt with disaster?”
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

The humans weren’t smart enough to know that they feared me, but their survival instincts were enough to keep them away.
Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun

Bella? Are you all right?

So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?

Most of the time I tune it all out — it can be very distracting. And then it’s easier to seem normal when I’m not accidentally answering someone’s thoughts rather than their words.

Aren’t we past all the evasions now?